The best for a family vacation

Written: 28 august 2010
Travel time: 13 — 27 august 2010
Who does the author recommend the hotel to?: For a relaxing holiday; For families with children
Your rating of this hotel:
9.0
from 10
Hotel ratings by criteria:
Rooms: 10.0
Service: 10.0
Cleanliness: 10.0
Food: 9.0
Amenities: 10.0
6 people had a family vacation, including three schoolchildren. Excellent hotel, excellent service, excellent area - a real botanical garden, especially different from neighboring hotels Sofitel, Marriot, Inter-continental, Redisson Blu. The sea was a little not very pleasant. No, it is very clean, the water is +30, but it was nicely refreshing, because the air was +45. And it is safe for small children - for the first time my children swam with a mask and snorkel, instantly learned on their own and the underwater world made them very happy. For adults only - you need to walk in shallow water 150 meters and carefully swim over the rocks and corals beyond the reef, or go 200 meters to the pier and another 150 meters on it to be immediately behind the reef. Such swimming - not for the lazy, but otherwise in shallow water - "you will be up to your waist! " So swimming in the sea - the whole event. Be sure to buy slippers in the hotel boutique ($ 15) or in the mall cheaper. Also with masks and tubes, which cost $ 30 in an online store in Kyiv.
USA, in the shopping center - from 65 local pounds (from 13 USD) The food was excellent, the cuisine changed - Italian, Oriental, Indian - varied. There were not enough watermelons and melons, and that's all - to my heart's content! Especially constant sweets and a variety of cakes. Everyone ate them, including those who fought for the figure - they were just ashamed of the variety and taste of food. Rooms were cleaned daily after breakfast, although the shampoo and shower gel were not always updated, but the bottles were never empty. Excursions from Pegasus were 25% more expensive than local ones (in the shopping center) or ordered online. We traveled for 2 days to Israel, and for a day to Peter, Jordan, we saved over $ 600. USA. The quality was not worse than in Pegasus or Tez-tour - they are, of course, monopolists in hotels and they bite primarily those who are not very focused and did not wander the Internet.
Interestingly, the hotel has a hall, hung with stands of other companies that serve Europeans and prices there - as on the Internet, not as in Pegasus and Tez tour.

I can't write anything negative. The discharge lasted several minutes - the suitcases and we were taken to the minicar and taken to the bus stop. Yes, the bus was an hour late! ! ! !!
At the airport, all the formalities went quickly, in the duty-free Arab with the inherent nation of entrepreneurship did his business, exchanging local pounds for dollars at the rate of 6 to 1. Well, that's a trifle!
In short, if you do not hang out, and relax quietly with children - there can be nothing better. Russian TV programs helped to entertain the evenings, stocked up on CDs that could not be watched for a year. Although Egypt succeeded.
But the trip to Israel was difficult. We rode from www. onetour. com. ru - reasonably left the hotel at midnight, having previously slept.
8-10 buses arrived at the Egyptian-Israeli border at the same time, which is about half a thousand people. So the Jews treated us for about three hours! If it was in the morning, half of the tourists would have turned to the hotel. Arrived at the Dead Sea: 50 air, 45 water! ! ! ! ! Oily salts of the Dead Sea were bought and thoroughly washed away, otherwise the next trip would be torture. Jerusalem was very heavy due to the heat: the Wailing Wall, the Church of the Holy Sepulcher, the move to Bethlehem to the Church of the Nativity, where it was very stuffy and many aggressive Polish Catholics, who insisted on visiting the temple shrine in turn - one Orthodox, one Catholic. . But the Orthodox Brotherhood won and the whole group passed in front of the Poles. The 3-star hotel in Bethlehem was clearly short of three stars, but it was clean and the breakfast was quite tolerable.

The second day was incomparably easier - we were taken in a small group by minibus to the North of Israel - to Nazareth (Temple of the Annunciation), Tiberias (on the shores of the Sea of ​ ​ Galilee - Lake Kemeret), bathed in Jordan - a very orderly and comfortable place for Christians, however, John baptized Jesus not at the mouth of the Jordan, but at its headwaters, but it can only be reached by an Israeli army jeep! In short, there is something to see in Israel, but you can go there only after the abolition of visas and not in the summer! !!
Petra in Jordan was not particularly surprised, the trip is not difficult - a catamaran 40 minutes by sea, a couple of minutes on border formalities, a 2-hour bus ride, a good lunch and a lot of dust near the eighth wonder of the world, especially at the end of the route. I advise you to limit yourself to Pharaoh's treasury and return to the bus stop.
If you go to Taboo to see Israeli friends, don't do it.
You can take the car to the hotel, but you can not drive in Israel on it! Bethlehem is Palestine, and getting an Israeli there is a problem. So the Arabs separately, the Jews - separately! ! ! !!
I wish everyone a pleasant stay and preferences! ! ! ! !
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